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This past weekend we made the trip to our new accountant to get things aligned for the past year and what lies ahead. He looked at all the 1099’s we had for the year and smiled a bit. “At least it looks like you don’t have to worry about a job cut with so many …
We have a lot of issues on this big blue marble we call home, whether they are global or personal in scope. However as we turn to spring today we have gotten constant reminders of the joy sports and live, communal shared experiences can bring and why, in challenging times thy are more important than …
There is more uncertainty about what will become of the business known as college athletics today than there has ever been. Just on Thursday at the SportsPro New York conference talk of a promotion and relegation system, collective bargaining, a creation of just a “Super League,’ requirements for transfer, requirements to actually maintain a certain …
This time of year as we move quickly closer to March Madness I like to look around the celebrations on TV or in person and notice those young people around the bench getting to experience the thrill of victory or the agony of defat for the first time. While the larger schools, and usually the …
In an attention starved, get it done yesterday world it’s sometimes nice to find consistency. Your friends you have known, the right slice of pizza or cup of coffee, a musical artist who knows just the right notes to play, Opening Day in Baseball etc. etc. Things can adjust, but the core thoughts…the core sounds, …
I have always felt that the wandering the halls and listening to topics away from the main stages at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference unveils an interesting look ahead to both the fun and the unusual. It’s where young people are talking, smaller conversations take place, and the fun and sometimes unusual reside. …
“We will attend and support only if it does not distract from the work being done.” Pretty simple and self-evident statement, right? Why should it even be news when a leader says such things? In most instances it really shouldn’t be, it should be common sense. But we remain in a time when the news is …
I have been a fan of Saturday Night Live since it’s inception. On Monday morning’s in high school my classmates would sit around the breakfast table in the cafeteria talking about the previous week’s episode. We even used skits like “The Coneheads on Family Feud” and others in our Spanish class for skits. The show …
It’s always interesting to see as chaos happens in certain aspects of business, who rises as a calming or thoughtful voice of reason. Oftentimes it can be thouse who have been through the grinder and emerged the other side as sage leaders who have learned from past mistakes. Sometimes they are opportunitists who reinvent themselves …
As we close the Olympic Games I got into a conversation with a colleague about the success of Eileen Gu, the place those of different countries who train in America, and the debate the Vice President of the US stirred in Milan over Gu’s choice to represent China and her ancestral ties vs. the U.S. …
